Arizona weekly citizen., 1887-05-07
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 WALLA WAL1A, April 29.-A well de- ! fined earthouake shock trGyersed Wslla
 WalIa Valley at minutes 10 this morning. It was felt at different points miles distant. The shook was from east to west.
 CrrY OF MEXICO, April 29-A English syndicate IS about to purchase the Aiula- tos mine. Their offer of six hundred and sixty thousand pounds has been 6c- cepted. A disputed title has blocked the proceeding. Senator Hearst. ot California is esid to have offered two million dollars for the mine two years ago, and was refused.
 LOUISVILLE, April 29.-Thc greatest excitement prevails here over an eX-
 pected attack on the jail by a mob which threatens to lynch Tanner guG | Patterson, the negro assai!ants Otj ennio | Bowman. lp. m.-Ths agreed signal of eleven | taps by the fire department bells, in case oi an attack on the jail, has JUst been rupg and great crowds Of people are pressing toward the Jail, The m!il- tIa are stationed around the building. | The police and the mob are now fight lnG. LATER:-A serious alarm was created throughout the city shortly after twelve. noon, today by reason of tue sounding of the riot alarm on the fire bells. as
 II WAS supposed riot wns n pr0gr, ls, | 4 great crowd rushed towards the lsii
 where the troops are on guard. IL was afterwards learned that the alarm WEs sounded for assembling oi al the troops
 si their GImones.
 EVANSVILLE, Gala, April 2j-L, f.
 Bsssett. city engineer of Sacramento, and n. B. Regglns, deputy |. =. mar shsl. arrived here today from QIigcy, | Piumas county, Mir. BhEslit holds @ commission from Capt. Paysou. o' the | U. 5. corps of engineers. for this coast, to make examination of the hydraulic
 mining field in Plunas county, for the collection of certain information desired by the U. 5. district attorney. JT. Das-
 sett reports that CD his srrlyRl aI QgIncy
 last Tuesday, be made known She CS- joct of his visit and showed his cOULls-
 sion. There gre in thst county ll3 de iendsnts, eD!oined In the altl-debris 1 -uIls, End R strong feeling exists aEaIast
 the anti debris association. Mr. Bss- l sett and h!s companion we're informed
 ilas their !Iye- Eou.L be IE danger q
 -hey remained there. They learned ] they would be unable % Ob!Lll hOtCl or 1 travelling accommodations. Hue hotel 1 keeper Gt Quincy was threatened thLt 1 her house would be burned II she tlru- ] ishcd accommodations to the two men. On Tuesday evening MessTF. BassCtt 1 and Reggins started out from QulIcy on
 foot and walked a long distance before
 they could find a house where they could stop for the night. The following morning they started for MsrySyi..e. In an interview, Bassett and Rsggius said
 they sscertained while ID Plumss c0un- | ty that a nnmber of hydraulic mines aye Tn operation ID contempt Of the court,
 and their owners declare they w!N pay
 no attention to any decree of the courts,
 either state or federal For this ressCn all agents of the government or anti debris association are treated as :1 their
 eases. PARIS, April 29-Soleil says some Ger mans dissrmed Russian sentinel who tried to prevent Germans from crossing ' the i5ilesisn frontier. It is expected that Schnaebeles will be placed on the retired list when re- leased by Germany.
 SAN FRASCIsCo, April 29.-It is be- ] lieved that an important clue has been | obtained to the identity Of the Sou't- ern Pacific train robbers. The clue is | ID the shape Of letter which dropped ! out of the pocket of the individual who | purchased g suit of clothes in q clCthinE store in this city about three weeks ago. The letter, which is now in thg | hands of tbe police, was signed "E1t | die" and contains Gn elaborate account ! of plan to rob t-Hiu n SoutL-rI | California or AuzOnH The writer ll- stTucted his RccompiIce tO get otf Gt No. | gales and advised hin Co be careful ic | boarding the train unOn which l. ws- proposed to commit the rohbery. The writer concludes with the following
 caution, "Paint yourself black and be sure and cover your rcd EaIr.'
 MoyTEREr,lApril 29-TLe preliminary examination of Simmons, charged with
 having set fire Co HoIel del Monte, con \ ciuded yesterday, and be wGs he.I n | S25,000 bail. The defense offered DO
 evidence.
 MIIwAUEEE, April 2s.-The will Of the late Alex Mltcneil has not beeu made public, bus it Is known he has | given Sl0.000 to the Protestant Orphan | Asylum, Sl0,OO0 to the PgssayHnt Hoe pitsl. Sj,OO0 to the Catholic Orphan Asylum, S5O00 to the Catholic Hospital, Sl00O0 to the Young Mens Christian Association, all oi AiilwaGkce, and 5000 each to the Episcopal colleges Et Nashath and Racine, Wisconsin.
 SAN FBASCIsCo, April 2s.-Wm. M. | BIveus, printer, aged seventy years, died les. night from a shock following the smputstIon ot bis leg. BIvens came here ID 'i9 snd was engaged at tine case | up 10 nine years hgO, when he settled down to country life.
 SAN FRASCIsco, April 2S-Ex-Juiga | Gordon N. Mott died Bt the residence Ci his son, John H. Mott, yesterday ID ! this city at the age of 7j. Deceased l was elected county jud2 m the summer Of 1855. When the 10th iudicIHl dis tIlct was formed he sas appointed judge o, the new court. Iu 1861 he was Ru- | pointed by President Lincoln disir!c! | judge of Nevada Territory. Three years later he vGs elected to the lower house of congress and served one term. Mott was the principal second and adviser of 1 HOn. stephen J, Field in the lEtteI'- | duel with Judge ", T, Barbour iu 1 1875,
 MILWAUKEE. April 2s-Hsnry Peters. | an old resident of sixty years. died @ | year ago. It was supposed that be had | left some money for hIs family, Bs he | was very niggardly. A box containing | S20,000 In gold coin was found to-day | in taking up the floor of the basement.
 WASHINGTON. April 2S-The marIne
 hospital bureau Is informed that the | Indians in the vicinity Of Yuma, Arizo- I us, are suffering from a severe epidemic | of measles, which has proved fatal in
 sixty cases, up to the lfth instant.
 PORTSMOUTH. April 2s-Dr. VI. T. | Northrup. n prominent physician at Haverhill. in the eastern por;iun of 1 Scioto county, was murdered yesterday by Thomas Mccoy, saloon keeper, and his brother Alfred, the postmaster at HaverhIll, aided by the two sons. Dr.
 Northrup had incurred the dIsp.easure of Mccoy b. expressing himself m favor of local option. They way laid hIm yes tarlar~ s, Hs !